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# The User Guide
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RetroDECK uses EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) as its bundled interface.
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The official EmulationStation Desktop Edition user guide is over at their gitlab.<br>
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[EmulationStation Desktop Edition user guide](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md)
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Note that the guide is written in a general way for the application and not how RetroDECK handles certain configurations. Also note that RetroDECK is currently not shipped with all the emulators ES-DE supports in the user guide.
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_EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) and it's guide is written by [Leon Styhre](https://gitlab.com/leonstyhre)<br>
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Published under the MIT-Licence._
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# Recommended sections in the user guide:
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## General Interface
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### General UI Settings
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Various settings that affect the user interface.<br>
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[UI Settings](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#ui-settings)
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### Other UI settings
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These are mostly technical settings.<br>
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[Other UI settings](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#other-settings)
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### General navigation
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These are the buttons mappings automatically applied by ES-DE.<br>
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[General navigation](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#general-navigation)
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If you are using the Steam Deck look at RetroDECKs hotkeys:
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[Steam Deck: Hotkeys ](https://github.com/XargonWan/RetroDECK/wiki/Steam-Deck:-Hotkeys)
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### Sound Settings
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Various sound settings.<br>
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[Sound settings](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#sound-settings)
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## Game settings and filters
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### Game options menu
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Various navigation for the game options menu.<br>
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[Game options menu](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#game-options-menu)
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### Game collections
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ES-DE provides two types of collections, Automatic collections and Custom collections, the latter being defined by the user. Collections are as the name implies only collections of games already present in your actual game systems, so they're basically grouping of games into convenient views.<br>
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[Game collections](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#game-collections)
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### Set alternative emulator.
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ES-DE allows you to change emulators for systems that has many different emulators.<br>
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[Set alternative emulator](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#other-settings-1)
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## Scraping and editing roms: metadata, images etc...
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### Scraper
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Contains the various options for the scraper, which is used to download metadata, images and videos for your games.<br>
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[Scraper guide](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#scraping)
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### Scraper account settings
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Setup of ScreenScraper account.<br>
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[Scraper account settings](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#account-settings)
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### Content Settings
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Describes the content types to include in the scraping.<br>
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[Content settings](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#content-settings)
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### How to: Manually copy custom media files (images, videos etc..)
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How to add custom media files to the ES-DE interface. For example you want other images then those on screenscraper or the game you add don't exists.<br>
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[How to: Manually copy custom media files](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#manually-copying-game-media-files)
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### Miximage settings
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These are the settings for the miximage generator, which can either be run from the scraper (single-game scraper or multi-scraper) or from the offline generator. The miximage combines the screenshot, marquee, box/cover and physical media images to make a composite picture that is displayed in the gamelist view. There are various settings for the generator.<br>
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[Miximage settings](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#miximage-settings)
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### Metadata editor
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In the metadata editor, you can modify the metadata, scrape for game info and media files, clear the entry which will delete all metadata and game media files, or delete the entire game which also removes its file on the filesystem. <br>
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[Metadata editor](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#metadata-editor)
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### Various other scraping settings.<br>
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[Other scraper settings](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#other-settings)
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## Media, video, themes and slideshow settings
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### Video screensaver settings
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Options specific to the video screensaver.<br>
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[Video screensaver settings](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#video-screensaver-settings)
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### Media viewer settings
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Settings for the media viewer that is accessible from the gamelist views.<br>
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[Media viewer settings](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#media-viewer-settings)
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### Slideshow screensaver settings
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Options specific to the slideshow screensaver.<br>
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[Slideshow screensaver settings](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#slideshow-screensaver-settings)
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### Theme settings
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Tells you how to use themes.<br>
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[Theme settings](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#themes)
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